He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
-James Joyce
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
Quotations
Music
Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.
-Morrissey
Music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
-Luciano Pavarotti
Music acts like a magic key to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
-Maria Von Trapp
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
-Elvis Presley
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
-Jimi Hendrix
The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.
-Luanne Rice
"Summer of Roses"
Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-Victor Hugo
